Breach

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Breach, Breached, or The Breach may refer to:

Places

• Breach, Kent, United Kingdom
• Breach, West Sussex, United Kingdom
• The Breach, Great South Bay in the State of New York

People

• Breach (DJ), an Electronic/House music act
• Miroslava Breach (1963–2017), Mexican journalist

Arts, entertainment, and media

Law

• Breach of confidence, a common law tort that protects private information that is conveyed in confidence
• Breach of contract, a situation in which a binding agreement is not honored by one or more of the parties to the contract
• Breach of duty of care, common law negligence
• Breach of promise, a former common law tort
• Breach of the peace, a legal term used in constitutional law in English-speaking countries
• Efficient breach, a breach of contract that the breaching party considers desirable
• Fundamental breach, a breach so fundamental that it permits the aggrieved party to terminate performance of the contract

Science, social science, and technology

• BREACH, a security exploit against the HTTPS protocol
• Breach, cetacean surfacing behaviour (a whale's leap out of the water)
• Breaching experiment, a social experiment that tests people's reactions to the violation of accepted social norms
• Data breach, the release of secure or private information to an untrusted environment
• Security breach, unauthorized access to a computer

Other uses

• Door breaching, a process to force open closed and/or locked doors
• Breach (siege), the opening by artillery of a gap in the walls sufficient to be assaulted by infantry during siege warfare

See also

• Breech (disambiguation)
• Tortious interference, a tort involving inducing persons to breach a contract

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